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You used to call yourself a liberal, now you call yourself a
progressive. High on your priorities is the creation of government
policies to guarantee people’s civil rights. You especially are
comitted to the use of the power of the state to bust the chops of
state agents who abuse their power to deny the rights of others.

You are a progressive professor in a public university in Texas who
believes in gun control. You claim that you never know when someone is
going to snap so you don’t want kids in your room with guns, you might
upset them as you engage in the free exchange of ideas and they might
throw down. So, no guns in your room, even if a person has a handgun
carry license.

Never mind that 21and older isn’t a kid. Never mind that the people
who you are talking about have spent about $200.00 to $300.00 to get
their license, thus demonstrating their respect for the law and
authority, including that of jerk professors. Never mind that HCL
holders in Texas, and indeed nationwide, statistically have a lower
violent crime rate than even law enforcement officers. Nobody brings a
concealed handgun to your class even if they have a license.

And then the state of Texas passes a law and enacts a series of
policies that assert that carrying a pistol with a license most places
is a civil right that its agents, including liberal professors, can
not deny, and your classroom is part of the list of most places.

And you lack the sense of humor to see you just got exactly what
you wanted from the very beginning.

Just a quick note that I am hopeful Ken would include in the letters
column of the next issue of L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE.
I am enjoying a great new book, a first novel from an excellent author
of many great non-fiction works, and the first in what I believe to be a
tremendous series.

The book is Speculator: High Ground, by Doug Casey and John Hunt. The
copy I’m reading was lent me by my good friend and fellow capitalist
Gator Greenwill. The book starts fast, and keeps ripping along. I am
enjoying it thoroughly.

The beginning is a cliffhanger that is written exactly as I would have
recommended, and, in fact, did. -smile- It is a great beginning to a
really great book, fun, informative, everything one wants in fiction.
It has science, it has adventure, it has guns and jungle, and a really
great attitude.

It may be classed in other genres, but it seems like scientific fiction,
to me, and very well conceived. Some of the ideas presented are way out
on the leading edge of current human experience. And if the hero
Charles Knight follows his career in terrestrial mining out to the
asteroid belt, the series would be accepted as science fiction by nearly
everyone.

Doug, you have done something wonderful. My thanks to you and to your
co-author John Hunt. All my very best wishes to you both.

A friend observed in response to an email chain today that there
are four types of people:

1. People with power;
2. People who aspire to power;
3. People who just want to be left alone (“to fish and hunt
buffalo”, my friend continued)
4. People who aspire to power, but lack the skills and talent
necessary to achieve it or use it.

To use semi mathematical terms, those who subscribe to
the ideals of liberty and those who fail to eschew the “benefits”
of public education are not mutually exclusive sets. Also, there may
be readers of TLE who are of such an age that they are required to
attend public school and/or who are in colleges or universities where
the flaws of public education arise. Finally there may be some people
employed by public schools or above described “institutions of
higher learning” who subscribe to libertarian ideals to varying
degrees (In the words of the song we’ve “got bills to pay, and
mouths to feed,” and often became committed to libertarianism
after getting involved in the education system, often too deeply
involved money wise to get out). All of the above need to be reminded
that beating the system/resisting its brainwashing efforts is possible,
possibly successful, and their obligation to themselves.

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